Monday, July 18, 2011

Thrift Haul: Thrift Adventuring at the Flea Market

This weekend I thrifted with my friends Nicole and Ed until we were thrift spent. Five hours later, Nicole and I gave in to exhaustion and went home to clean up our goods for our respective shops. It's not the grandest or longest thrift adventure I've ever had, but it was fun to plot with art friends about future shows and collaborations while hunting.

Oh, look what's back, the pedantic spreadsheet I started at the beginning of this year! This was driving me crazy so I stopped tracking each purchase I made for a couple of months. It's pretty exhausting when you make lots of tiny pocket-change purchases, but for the sake of knowing my true profits, this must continue!

And HELLO, beautiful and huge velvet boat art! Nicole spotted it first but didn't have enough space for them. Luckily I have some wall space in my bedroom, so this beautiful piece and the one below are mine now! You can see the one above is damaged so I'm not selling it yet. I might repair it and paint some cool Super Mario Brothers style ghosts over it per Ed's suggestion!

This huge piece is for sale if anyone's interested. It is crazy unique, nice shapes, gorgeous vintage frame, and moody and hell! E-mail me if you're interested and I'll give you a big discount from the antique store price.(It's in Southern Crossing antique mall right now.)

I got a sweet deal on stack of vintage cook books, too! 12 beautiful ones for $5. I'll have to dedicate post to the details in these, so many lovely recipes, but my favorite part of all these books are the illustrations within.

These two "for kids" cook books are my favorites, love the jaunty colors, illustrations, step-by-step guides, and cute animal shapes in some of the recipes.

I don't buy purses unless they're very unique. This large clutch is extremely soft and the geometric shapes are interesting. I'm sure someone will appreciate it and scoop it up from the antique store.

And isn't this sun tea jar amazing? I love making sun tea so I think I'm going to hang on to this one for now. Yum, iced mint tea...

So my work is cut out for me. I have plenty of books filled with beautiful vintage illustrations to read and admire and a few things to repair. I'm going to use these illustrations as my muse for a vintage inspired art line, among other things.

Ok WOW! you have two of the three most desirable Betty Crocker cookbooks. I sold the Pink/blue one for 45.00. Both of them look to be in beautiful condition too. Two fantastic finds!!! Now personally i'd probably knock someone over to get to those velvet paintings!:)

I quite enjoy adding all my purchases to my spreadsheet (I dabble in selling things on eBay) - particularly when you see the profits add up!I have to do it as soon as I get home, though, as otherwise I forget what I bought.